A/N: Well! This time Tadashi wakes up!


"H-Hiro…?" Tadashi groaned out. Hiro whowas half asleep was immediately awake.

"Tadashi!" Hiro scrambled off the chair and made his way to his brothers side. He grabbed Tadashi's hand, relishing in the warmth of his brother's hands. "It's me! Hiro! I'm right here." He felt Tadashi squeeze back, and the jump in Hiro's heart sent a shock through his body. Slowly, Tadashi opened his eyes, and blinked a couple of times, trying to focus on his surroundings.

He looked around, slightly disoriented. "Wh-Where am I?" Tadashi tried to move, but a slight sting of pain came over him as his face scrunched up. Immediately Hiro pressed the button for the nurse.

Trying to rub soothing circles on Tadashi's hand, "Tadashi, don't move. Relax!" Hiro just panicked a little as Tadashi continued to try to get up.

Tadashi's voice wasn't still there, as he groggily, and painfully asked, "T-The fire…?" Tadashi tried to move again, but it was at this time one of the nurses came in.

"Mr. Hamada, please try to relax. You are at San Fransokyo Memorial Hospital." The nurse said pushing Tadashi back onto the bed as he tried to get up. "You need to lay back down and get some rest." The nurse turned to Hiro, "Can you calm your brother down?" Tadashi was still struggling, making his heart race, which must not have been good from what Hiro could deduce.

Hiro tried to hold Tadashi down, "Tadashi! Relax! Relax! Come on bro."

"H-Hiro?" Tadashi stopped his movement, before looking at him. Their eyes locked, and Hiro could see the relieve in those eyes. "It...it hurts." Tadashi said, gesturing to his throat.

"Drink this." Abigail was standing next to the nurse, with a glass of water in her hand. "I went to get a doctor when I heard he was waking up. She will be in soon." Abigail told the nurse.

"Thank you Ms. Callaghan." The nurse told her.

Hiro though helped Tadashi drink the glass of water, supporting his brother's head as Tadashi drank the whole glass in one gulp. "Better?" Hiro asked. Tadashi nodded as he closed his eyes. "Tadashi, are you alright?" Another nod.

The doctor came rushing into the room. Hiro recognized him as the doctor who always came to check up on Hiro and Tadashi, every once in awhile he would bring Hiro a lollipop or a snack from the cafeteria. His name was Doctor Tyler Fujioka. Tall, with dirty blonde hair, broad shoulders and you could tell he worked out. "Mr. Hamada." Doctor Fujioka said, pulling out one of those penlights. "Can you tell me your name?"

"T-" Tadashi swallowed, "Tadashi Hamada."

"How old are you?"

"Nineteen."

"Where do you go to school?"

"San Fransokyo Institute of Technology." Tadashi was answering everything perfectly, and Hiro could feel the weight being lifted from his shoulders.

"Do you know who this is?" Doctor Fujioka pointed at Hiro.

"My little brother. Hiro Hamada." Tadashi looked at Hiro, and his lips quirked in a smile.

"Very good Mr. Hamada. It seems like there are no damage. Now, I need you to get some rest and we will begin to get you through Physical Therapy if you are up for it tomorrow." Dr. Fujioka said. He asked the nurse to get a read out of his vitals and to take his blood pressure. Dr. Fujioka gestured for Hiro to follow him out of the room. Hiro followed obediently, feeling Tadashi's eyes on him as he left.

"So?" Hiro asked, the hope in his voice made Doctor Fujioka smile.

"The prognosis is good." Hiro let go a breath he didn't know he was holding in. "His legs will be extremely weak from the atrophy of muscles since he hasn't used them in five months, but with some physical therapy he should be up and walking in about a month. If things go well, he will be able to leave the hospital in three weeks, as long as he clears all of the tests." Doctor Fujioka leaned down and placed a hand on Hiro's shoulder. "I'm happy for you Hiro. I'm going to call your Aunt and tell her the news. You should stay with him tonight, in case he wakes up disoriented again." She suggested.

"Thank you Doctor." Hiro said, and hugged him quickly. Hiro embarrassed backed away slowly. "Sorry!" He said, putting his hands behind his back. "Not a good time, I will just...go." Hiro said, disappearing into the room, leaving Dr. Fujioka laughing to himself as he walked away.

Hiro passed the nurse who was just leaving after doing what she needed to do. Abigail closed the curtain to her side of the room, giving Hiro a little privacy with his brother. He was laying down now, his hands fiddling with the hat on his chest. "Hey Tadashi." Hiro nervously said as he approached. Was Tadashi the same? Was he different? What if Tadashi wasn't his big brother anymore? All these thoughts and more ran through Hiro's head in the small few seconds Tadashi just looked at Hiro.

"Hey Knucklehead." Tadashi smiled, his scarred face crinkling with the smile, and for some reason Hiro's heart jumped at the affectionate nickname. "Are you going to get in here or am I going to have to get out of this bed?" Tadashi asked, holding one of his arms out as a gesture for Hiro.

Hiro barreled his way and gave Tadashi a hug. "Oof! Still hurting a bit Hiro." Tadashi said as Hiro collided with him.

"I'm sorry!" Hiro shot up, quickly, trying to pull away, but was stop by Tadashi's arm encircling him and pulling him back to his chest.

"Don't worry about it." Tadashi said, rubbing a soothing circle on Hiro's back. Hiro snuggled deeper into Tadashi's chest, loving the way his brother held him close, and reveling in the fact that even after all this time Tadashi still smelled the same, it was an odd scent of cinnamon mixed with vanilla, he had no idea why this was Tadashi's smell but even after laying in a bed for so long he still smelled like comfort.

They stayed like that for awhile, it felt like hours, but it must have been just a few minutes before Tadashi began to run his hand through Hiro's hair. "Will you ever tame this crow's nest of a hair?"

Hiro hummed in appreciation of feeling hands in his hair, "You are just jealous that I can pull messy bed head off." Hiro retorted. "Besides, everyone at school likes it. Says it makes me look like a mad scientist." Hiro gave an evil cackle.

Tadashi chuckled, "You are going to San Fransokyo now?" Tadashi asked, curiosity in his voice.

"Yeah." Hiro moved away, and Tadashi shuffled over to make room for Hiro. "I actually took over your lab space when…" The silence hung in the air. "Oh! That reminds me!" Hiro changed the subject thinking of something a little safer to talk about. "Ow!" Hiro said, there was a beep in the room as the two brothers watched Baymax inflate himself and walk out of his charging station.

"Hello, I am Baymax your personal healthcare companion." Baymax greeted the two Hamada brothers.

Tadashi looked at the robot, and couldn't help the grin that crossed his face. "Baymax!"

"Good evening Tadashi. My scans indicate you are feeling joyous and show signs of happiness." Baymax announced.

"I am buddy. I really am." Tadashi smiled at the robot before turning to Hiro. "You kept Baymax? Did you do anything unique with him? Is he still functioning fine? I was worried about a part of his code when it came to learning about the patient. Is his defibrillators operational? When I last upgraded him they drained the batteries faster than expected, so did the warming sequence." Tadashi began to ask Hiro all of these questions.

"Whoa whoa whoa Tadashi! You are asking more questions about your robot than your little brother! Seriously? You were dead for months!" Hiro said, trying to joke about it all, but Tadashi's face fell.

Tadashi looked away, back at Baymax. "Sorry bro…"

"Hey! I was kidding! I understand, I would probably be doing the same thing! I would wanna know if anyone messed with my inventions while I was away! Remember when I left that bubble pen on the table and freaked out when I thought you stole it?"

"You were seven Hiro, you freaked out if I took your candy stash underneath the bed."

"My gummy bears are incredibly precious to me Tadashi. You know that by now."

Rolling his eyes, Tadashi just shook his head. "Yeah, I remember Hiro. You accused me of stealing your invention and wouldn't stop throwing metal parts at my head until Mochi walked into the room with it in his mouth."

"I stick by my seven year old self." Hiro gave a small pout.

"You haven't changed that stubbornness since you were born. Looks like time hasn't changed that one." Tadashi ruffled his brothers head. "Baymax, tell me how Hiro has upgraded you."

Baymax's screen flashed to life as it displayed the programming. "Hiro has made adjustments to my scanner by 100 percent giving a larger range. I can now scan multiple people at one time and diagnose each one with a 93.64 percent accuracy. He also made changes to my battery changing them from Lithium Ion to Supercapacitor allowing my batteries to last a week rather than the previous three days." Baymax showed his battery life being at max charge.

"Nice work Hiro. I didn't think about scanning multiple people at once when I created Baymax. Since it was for personal healthcare, didn't see the usage." Tadashi thought about it.

"He also has fitted me with battle ready armor, negating the huggable feature originally implemented."

"Baymax! Shh!" Hiro said trying to stop the marshmallow.

"The armor is made to withstand high impact with a detachable rocket fists, as well as giving me the ability to fly. Although I do not see the upgrades as helping with my original healthcare parameters, Hiro's mood dramatically increases when we go flying." Baymax continued to dig Hiro's grave as Tadashi just glared at Hiro, who tried his hardest to look like the innocent little brother.

"Baymax, I am satisfied with my care!" Hiro tried to yell to get Baymax to go shut off.

"I am sorry Hiro, but my settings has Tadashi as the primary user, with your safety as top priority. When you are trying to get me to shut off in the presence of Tadashi because you are hiding something my response is supposed to be, 'Hiro, Tadashi knows best.'" Baymax held a finger in the air like he was stating a fact.

Hiro gave Tadashi an incredulous look, "You programmed your robot to sass me?!"

Tadashi shrugged, "If you were trying to hide something, of course I would want Baymax to tell me. Just planning for everything." Tadashi smiled.

"How would you even know I would try to hide something from you?!" Tadashi just raised his eyebrow. "Ok, bot-fighting wasn't something I exactly hid, you always caught me. If I wanted to hide it I would have found a way."

"That's exactly why I programmed Baymax not to sass you but give me the primary user so I can know if anything was wrong with you."

Hiro rolled his eyes. "Is that why Baymax doesn't shut up when I ask him to?"

Tadashi just chuckled, "Baymax is a robot, he doesn't understand how to 'shut up'." Tadashi challenged, using air quotes. "Besides that, flying? Hiro, care to explain?" Tadashi waited patiently, his arms crossed as the two were sitting up in bed.

Hiro just shuffled uncomfortably. "A lot of things happened when you were under, you know city under attack, psychotic old professors who seek revenge on one of the richest men in the city, as well as inter-dimensional travel. The upgrades were…"Hiro thought of the word. "Circumstantial, they came because that was what was needed at the time. It's not like I'm doing it for fun, we are helping people! Saving lives like Baymax is supposed to you know?!" Tadashi wasn't buying it.

"I also know Ka-rate." Baymax moved his hands, which looked even more ridiculous without the armor on. Tadashi and Hiro burst into a fit of giggles.

"Ouch, it still hurts to laugh so much…" Tadashi winced, coughing a little bit.

Baymax scanned Tadashi, "Tadashi your lungs are still healing from the smoke inhalation." Baymax produced a tiny, portable inhaler. "Take a deeeep breath." The healthcare robot stressed, and when Tadashi did, Baymax used the inhaler to send medicine into his creators lungs. Tadashi's labored breathing became even and controlled, although still a little weezy.

Feeling a bit out of place, Hiro shifted uncomfortably feeling responsible for his brother's minor attack. "Sorry…" Hiro didn't know what to say, he didn't want to cause Tadashi anymore discomfort. "If you want I can go home." Hiro made a move to get up, but Tadashi quickly brought Hiro back into the bed, and hugged Hiro to his chest. "Errr, Tadashi, crushing me." Hiro tried to warn, it just made Tadashi squeeze harder. "Can't….breathe…" Hiro joked.

"Yeah yeah." Tadashi let go, but kept an arm still behind Hiro's head. "I know you, Hiro...at least I hope I still do." Tadashi said, looking up at the ceiling. "Just...stay tonight." Hiro blushed when he felt Tadashi nuzzle his hair a little, "I missed you…" Tadashi brought him in for another one armed hug, forcing ,(if you ask Hiro he was forced), Hiro to lay his head on Tadashi's chest. "Now get some rest, I'm exhausted." Tadashi grabbed the hat and placed it on his head and dragged the cap down over his eyes.

"I missed you too Tadashi…" Hiro whispered, before closing his eyes.

He fell asleep to Tadashi telling Baymax, that he was satisfied with his care.

(Line break)

Hiro and Tadashi woke up to the sound of a picture being taken. "They are so cute!" Honey practically cooed.

Tadashi was awake immediately as he looked at his friends all gathered around him. "Good morning guys." Tadashi greeted his friends who were all grinning ear to ear. It wasn't until he looked over at Honey who was giggling crazily at her phone that he shivered. Almost fearfully he had to ask, "What is so cute Honey?"

She shoved the phone into Tadashi's face and Tadashi's face heated up, his cheeks and ears turning red. On the phone was pictures of him and his little brother...cuddling. Even to Tadashi, he could see the small things that made it look like they were more than brothers. The way Hiro placed himself in the crook of Tadashi's neck, the way Tadashi held Hiro closely, his nose pressed in Hiro's hair. Even the way Hiro placed his hand on Tadashi's chest it seemed more loving, like he was clinging to Tadashi.

Then a few pictures later he couldn't help but laugh when the whole gang were crowded around him and a sleeping Hiro. Hiro was propped up, with Fred making him grin, while Tadashi lazily laid on Wasabi's shoulder, his mouth slightly open. They must have taken multiple pictures as they got more ridiculous. Gogo was punching Fred after he might have grabbed Gogo inappropriately.

"H-huh…?" A very groggy Hiro said, rubbing his eyes like he was still seven years old waking up from a nap. He yawned and stretched, he jumped when he realized who was in the room with him.

"Good morning Little buddy." Wasabi greeted him.

"We heard Tadashi woke up last night from Baymax." Baymax waved slightly in the background as Gogo gestured to the robot, "Thought we should come by." Gogo shrugged.

"I told you he would wake up." Hiro told Gogo as he hopped out of bed. Tadashi was currently talking with Fred who was telling him about his Fredzilla suit, and how awesome it was to be superheroes in which Tadashi was just mulling over the fact that his little brother was the leader of this group of heroes.

Gogo punched Hiro in the arm, "You did. I shouldn't have doubted you. We shouldn't have doubted you."

"Duh. I am a genius for a reason you know." Hiro flashed his gap toothed smile making Gogo roll her eyes at the young teenager.

"Right. Well, genius, use that brain of yours because it looks like that older brother of yours is about to kill someone." Gogo just turned around, ending the conversation. Hiro felt a shiver down his neck and through his spine before he heard a sickenly sweet voice.

"Hiro." Slowly, and almost painfully Hiro turned around to see Tadashi, smiling. It wasn't a pleasant smile. Hiro has only seen this smile once before when he was ten and one of the seniors from High School began to hit on Hiro when he was a freshman. All he knew was he took the guy into an empty classroom for five minutes, but when they exited Tadashi was smiling the way he was now, and the guy was pale, and looking like he was going to throw up his lunch. "Would like to explain what you are doing in your free time?"

Hiro just looked at his friends, looking for some help. "Err I told you last night. Battle armor, situations that arose, battling Callaghan, saving San Fransokyo."

Tadashi just looked at him baffled. "You were serious?!" Tadashi practically yelled, "I was on pain medication! I could barely think straight, I thought you were joking! You turned Baymax into a fighting machine?! You gave our friends super powered suits?!" Yup, definitely yelling now."How could you be so...so irresponsible?! You could have died Hiro!"

The words echoed through the room, and everyone just stopped and watched the words register on Hiro's face. "You have no right to say that to me Tadashi!" He pointed his finger accusingly, "You ran into a burning building that exploded to save someone! Was that responsible?!"

"Somone had to-"

Hiro cut Tadashi off, "'Some has to help' I know Tadashi," His fists were clenched at his sides. "Someone always has to help, but why did it have to be you? Why couldn't you let someone else help, when it wasn't your responsibility? Did you not think about leaving everyone? About dying? About leaving me alone? You always talk about thinking about your actions, and being responsible, but when the situation arises you run into a burning freaking building that explodes!" Hiro was now the one yelling back, "Even when I tried to stop you, that look you gave me…" His voice just quieted down. Hiro looked defeated. "Whatever." Hiro walked out of the room, everyone stunned at his little speech.

Baymax who was active followed after the littlest Hamada, as Hiro was his primary patient.

Tadashi just leaned back in his bed before he turned his glare towards his friends who all huddled together watching the scene play out, "Why did you let him do this?! How did that even happen?!"

Wasabi was the first one to speak up, "It's not as bad as it sounds! We just...suit up, save the city from disasters or crazy freaky criminals who intend to steal, harm, or destroy the city, crazy robotic things appear everyone once in awhile…" Wasabi stopped for a second. "Ok, I guess it does sound bad when I put it like that…"

Honey approached the bed, with a small smile on her face. "He's been through so much Tadashi, and I think what you said really hurt him."

Tadashi just sighed, "I know, but what was I going to do just support his crazy idea of crimefighting?!"

"Yeah. You are." Gogo said. "Your support means the world to Hiro, even if he doesn't wanna admit it. That kid that just walked out of the room has done some amazing things, that none of us ever could have imagined." Gogo popped her bubble to add emphasis to the point.

Wasabi ruffled Hiro's head, "He's helped me get over my fear of heights...and falling to death...and falling while flying. I do have a new fear of giant robotic spiders though. Intensified my fear of spiders...well all arachnids. Which reminds me, whoever left that plastic spider on my workbench, not cool guys. Not cool." He grumbled as Gogo snickered, giving a small wink. "Not cool…"

"Dude, he made me into a firebreathing godzilla monster, a Fredzilla! Get it, cause my name is Fred? And I'm a godzilla?!"

"We've been through this at least five times, we get it Fred, you don't have to mention it all the time. We know your name is Fredzilla." Wasabi sighed. "You came back from the dead for this?" He pointed at Fred who was wreaking havoc in the room.

"I never came back to life." Tadashi pointed out. "It just...it baffles me to see Hiro having grown so much in such a short amount of time." Tadashi ran his hand down his face, before resting his forehead in the palm of his hand.

"He's a good kid, and when you died he was lost." Gogo said seriously, each of them knew Gogo would give it to you straight if you needed that wake up call, and Tadashi needed that wake-up call. "He barely ate...and guess what? No matter how many times we all reached out, he didn't find any reason to leave the house, until he was reminded of you through Baymax."

"He was devastated by your death Tadashi. We tried to get him to come to the lab, to get some food somewhere, but every single time he would hang up, or just ignore our knocking." Honey sadly smiled remembering Hiro sitting on the stairs, that blank look on his face, "We were all hurting from losing our best friend, but Hiro seemed like he lost all of it. Like a lost puppy who couldn't find their master anymore. He just wallowed until Baymax activated again." Honey was just reiterating the point to Tadashi, because they all saw it when they met Hiro again after Tadashi's death. He was just bones when the gang saw him in the docks, with bags that looked like the darkside of the moon hanging from his eye lids.

"The point we are making is that Hiro isn't the little kid you knew anymore Tadashi. He's taken on a lot of responsibilities, and suffered more than you could imagine after you died." Gogo just crossed her arms. "The least you can do, is give him some support because that's all he has been doing for us since he snapped out of his depression."

Tadashi just looked at all of his old friends, the look of eagerness on Honey's face, and the way Gogo was looking like she didn't care about the situation, Tadashi just sighed. "Alright, alright." Tadashi caved. "I'm going to have to get to know Hiro again…"

Gogo satisfied with this response, "As much as I love these sappy situations, we have to get back to school." Gogo began to walk out of the room, grabbing both Wasabi and Fred by their shirts and dragging them outside of the room. "We'll see you soon." She called out as the boys struggled against her surprisingly strong grip.

"Bye Tadashi! Feel better! I promise to come back and update you on everything you missed! Ooo and show you my Power Purse!" She giggled cheerfully. "Ok! Bye!" She disappeared, following the rest of the group.

Tadashi, left alone in the room now had time to think. Adjusting himself in the bed, Tadashi was still sore from everything, but he definitely felt better than last night. His breathing was a little easier, his legs were still hurting, but he could move his arms fine, and his head seemed clear enough. Looking down his hospital gown, he pulled it open slightly to see the scars of the fire. He sighed, life wasn't going to be the same for him.

It wasn't until he heard Hiro's laughter that he perked back up. "So, all of a sudden I switched Megabot's stance from his happy mode to attack! The guy didn't even see it coming. You should have seen how slow and bulky his bot was. He called it Little Yama, how do you call your robot after yourself anyways?"

"He must have been compensating for something." A female voice said, and the laughter continued.

"Never thought of it that way." Tadashi could already see the snickering he was doing. "But Megabot got Little Yama to destroy himself and then popped his head right off. The guy was infuriated, it was totally awesome." Hiro said as they entered the room.

Abigail was laughing alongside Hiro, smiling at the way the boy lit up talking about bot fighting. "I have to come see Megabot in action when I get out of here."

"Hey! You should just come over and we can build you a bot as well." Hiro cheerfully invited Abigail.

Tadashi couldn't help but glare at the woman who entered the room with Hiro. Who was she, and why was Hiro inviting her to invent and build things with her? Tadashi couldn't help but get territorial since Hiro and Tadashi have been inventing together since Tadashi built that mini airplane when they were little. Ever since then, the two boys always bounced ideas back and forth until Hiro kept building bigger and better things.

"Oh! Hello, you must be Tadashi Hamada!" Abigail said as she noticed Tadashi sitting up in bed. Tadashi smiled politely, "I'm Abigail Callaghan, your roommate for a few more days." She came over and shook Tadashi's hand.

Tadashi, shaking it back could tell this woman was someone who was confident about herself just from her handshake. "Callaghan as in the daughter of Professor Callaghan? Wow, I've heard so much about you. It seems like Professor Callaghan wasn't lying when he said how brilliant you are if you are talking bots with Hiro." Tadashi charmingly said. Even if he might have a small grudge against her, Tadashi wasn't going to be rude.

"Ah, well when your dad is the leader in robotics you tend to pick a few things up." Abigail laughed, "Hiro has been raving about you. I must say, Baymax is incredible." Baymax on his part just cocked his head and blinked a couple of times.

"Thank you, means a lot considering that he is my life's work." Tadashi fondly looked over at Baymax who just waved politely, making Tadashi chuckle to himself. "Hopefully Hiro hasn't told you anything too embarrassing about me."

"Your whole life is embarrassing, nerd." Hiro said in the background, making Tadashi's lips quirk into a small smile. Even if Hiro changed, Tadashi knew that Hiro was still angry at him with the insults he threw his direction. It was his defense mechanism to just snap back when he was upset.

"Not your best insult bro." Tadashi said, earning him a glare.

"It's true, not creative at all." Abigail added, winking at Tadashi quickly.

"What?! Now you are taking his side?! I thought we were bros Abigail." Hiro said, faking his hurt.

"Considering I'm a woman Hiro, that's not the best compliment." Scowling Hiro ignored his elders and just went to sit down on the chair. "Whatever, let him help you with building a fighting robot."

"Huh, although I'm not a bot fighter, could be interesting to do." Tadashi said looking at Abigail who had the same light in her eye as he did. "Nice little side project."

"Would love to have the help from someone who created something as complicated as Baymax." Abigail nonchalantly said, Hiro's face was scrunched up, definitely not pleased.

"I'm so down. We can take Hiro down a peg or two with our bot." Tadashi smiled, "Partners." He held out his hand.

"Partners." Tadashi decided he liked Abigail.


A/N: So I've come to the decision...this will be my next extremely long project. I love the story and when I write I can literally imagine the characters and how they interact with each other like it was a movie. This means...that the story will get complicated and I'm going to be bringing in some characters like The Fujitas. This also means that Hiro and Tadashi's relationship will grow from this brotherly fondness slowly into something more. Also introducing things like kidnapping a little angst, you know dynamics in a story. Right now it is just giving the basis and the setting and characterization of our...ahem "Hiros"...no? I know I'm lame. Also, this chapter is double the last, so I hope you guys love it!

Anyways! Next chapter we shall see how Tadashi might fit in with the Big Hero 6 heroics...if anyone has any ideas let me know! Cause I'm still working out the kinks! With that, I leave you for a bit to go study for Finals! Don't worry, whenever I get exhausted and can't study anymore I write. Leave me a comment, it helps motivate me to write and is a shining gem in these dark times known as Finals Week.